Robert Pickton is a serial killer from Canada who would confess to the murders of 49 women
According to court documents Robert Pickton was a pig farmer in British Columbia Canada who was known to throw wild parties and raves. Unfortunately at these parties nearly fifty women would go missing. When police finally searched Pickton property they would find a ton of evidence and were able to place him under arrest
Robert Pickton Victims
On December 9, 2007, Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women:
Count One: Sereena Abotsway,[50] 29, was reported missing on August 22, 2001.
Count Two: Mona Lee Wilson,[51] 26, was reported missing on November 30, 2001.
Count Six: Andrea Joesbury, 22, was reported missing June 8, 2001.
Count Seven: Brenda Ann Wolfe,[52] 32, was reported missing on April 25, 2000.
Count Eleven: Georgina Faith Papin, 34, was reported missing in March 2001.
Count Sixteen: Marnie Lee Anne Frey,[53] 24, was reported missing on December 29, 1997.Pickton also stood accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of twenty other women until these charges were stayed on August 4, 2010:
Count Three: Jacquelene Michelle McDonell,[54] 22, was reported missing on January 16, 1999.
Count Four: Dianne Rosemary Rock,[55] 34, was reported missing on December 13, 2001.
Count Five: Heather Kathleen Bottomley,[56] 27, was reported missing on April 17, 2001.
Count Eight: Jennifer Lynn Furminger, 28, was reported missing on December 27, 1999.
Count Nine: Helen Mae Hallmark,[57] 20, was reported missing on June 15, 1997.
Count Ten: Patricia Rose Johnson,[58] 25, was reported missing on January 2, 2001.
Count Twelve: Heather Gabrielle Chinnook, 30, was last seen in April 2001.
Count Thirteen: Tanya Holyk, 23, was reported missing on November 3, 1996.
Count Fourteen: Sherry Leigh Irving,[59] 24, was reported missing on February 22, 1997.
Count Fifteen: Inga Monique Hall,[60] 46, was last seen in February 1998.
Count Seventeen: Tiffany Louise Drew, 27, was reported missing on December 31, 1999.
Count Eighteen: Sarah Jean de Vries, 29,[61] was last seen in April 1998.
Count Nineteen: Cynthia "Cindy" Feliks,[62] 43, was last seen in December 1997.
Count Twenty: Angela Rebecca Jardine, 27, was reported missing on November 20, 1998.[63][64]
Count Twenty-One: Diana Melnick, 23,[65] was last seen in December 1995.
Count Twenty-Two: Mission Jane Doe, discovered on February 25, 1995. Pickton refused to enter a plea on the charge involving this victim, known in the proceedings as Jane Doe, so the court registered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. "The count as drawn fails to meet the minimal requirement set out in Section 581 of the Criminal Code. Accordingly, it must be quashed", wrote Justice James Williams. The detailed reasons for the judge's ruling cannot be reported in Canada because of the publication ban covering this stage of the trial.
Count Twenty-Three: Debra Lynne Jones,[66] 42, was last seen in December 2000.
Count Twenty-Four: Wendy Crawford, 43, was last seen in December 1999.
Count Twenty-Five: Kerry Lynn Koski, 38, was reported missing on January 7, 1998.
Count Twenty-Six: Andrea Fay Borhaven, 25,[67] was last seen in March 1997.
Count Twenty-Seven: Cara Louise Ellis,[68] 25,[69] was reported missing on January 21, 1997.Pickton is implicated in the murders of the following women, but charges have not yet been laid:
Mary Ann Clark,[70] 25, disappeared in August 1991.
Yvonne Marie Boen,[71] 33, was reported missing on March 16, 2001.
Dawn Teresa Crey,[72] was last seen in December 2000.[73][74]Robert Pickton would be eventually convicted of six of the murders and would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years
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Robert Pickton Case
One of the world’s most notorious serial killers expressed disappointment that he had been unable to murder more victims to an undercover police officer posing as his cellmate.
Robert Pickton said he butchered 49 women at his farm near Vancouver, Canada.
Unaware that he was being filmed, the 69-year-old told his police officer cellmate that he had “wanted an even 50” of victims but fell short of the macabre target after “being sloppy”.
Most of Robert Pickton’s victims were sex workers, who he lured from Vancouver’s red light district to his farm with drugs and alcohol.
There, he would have sex with them before murdering them. He then dismembered them before feeding the remains to his pigs or grinding them up into mince which he is believed to have mixed with animal meat and sold to the public.
He killed some of the women by injecting them with anti-freeze from a syringe which he told them contained drugs. Others he stabbed to death.
Police found the DNA of 26 women at Robert Pickton’s farm, after they raided it in 2002 to search for weapons.
The footage captured by the undercover officer shortly after his arrest will be broadcast in a new documentary, Voice of a Serial Killer. It show Pickton boasting about the murders.
“I can making things disappear,” he said. “Only I was kinda sloppy at the end, too, getting too sloppy.”
He added: “They got me on this one… they’ve got DNA. I was gonna do another one, make it an even 50. That’s why I was sloppy. I wanted to do one more, make the big 5-0.”
In 2007 Robert Pickton was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. Prosecutors stayed the remaining 20 charges as he was already serving the maximum sentence possible under Canadian law.
As the extent of his crimes emerged, police faced anger from victims’ relatives, who accused detectives of ignoring signs that a serial killer was on the loose, which they claimed had allowed more murders to take place.
It was also alleged that police had not taken the disappearances seriously because the women were sex workers and, mostly, from Canada’s indigenous community.
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Robert Pickton Death
B.C. killer Robert Pickton is dead, just days after he was assaulted at a maximum security prison in Quebec, Correctional Service Canada confirmed Friday (May 31).
Pickton, 74, died in hospital May 31 after being injured in an assault by another inmate on May 19 at Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Correctional Service Canada says it is launching a Board of Investigation in the assault. The invesigation will look into the circumstances around the assault, and whether policies and protocols were followed.
Quebec provincial police spokesman Frédéric Deshaies said Friday afternoon that Pickton had died “in the last few hours.”
He said police were also continuing to investigate the assault and that they had a 51-year-old suspect.
Correctional Service Canada said at the time of his death, Pickton had been serving an indeterminate sentence that began on Dec. 11, 2007 for six counts of second-degree murder, with the maximum parole ineligibility period of 25 years.
He was charged with the murders of 26 women, but the remains or DNA of 33 – many who were taken from
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – were found on Pickton’s
Port Coquitlam pig farm. He once bragged to an undercover officer that he killed a total of 49.
Pickton’s confirmed victims were Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey.
His next of kin has been notified, and Correctional Service Canada has also contacted registered victims. A coroner has also been notified.
“We are mindful that this offender’s case has had a devastating impact on communities in British Columbia and across the country, including Indigenous peoples, victims and their families. Our thoughts are with them,” Correctional Service Canada said in its news release.
Papin’s sister, Cynthia Cardinal, said Pickton’s death means she can finally move on from her sister’s murder.
“This is gonna bring healing for, I won’t say all families, I’ll just say most of the families,” she said.
“Because they didn’t get their day in court, (that’s) what I’m really sad about. But I’m also feeling really happy right now,” said Cardinal.
“I’m like — wow, finally. I can actually move on and heal and I can put this behind me.”
Police began searching the Pickton farm in the
Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam more than 22 years ago in what would be a years-long investigation into the disappearances of dozens of women, many of them from
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Vancouver police were criticized for not taking the cases seriously because many of the missing were sex workers or drug users.
Pickton became eligible for day parole in February, which sparked outrage from advocates, politicians and victims’ family members who criticized Canada’s justice system, saying he should never be released from prison.
Premier David Eby said Friday that his first thoughts go to the families of Pickton’s victims. While Pickton’s death could bring closure to some of them, it could also re-open old wounds, he said.
“Robert Pickton preyed on the most vulnerable people in society,” Eby said. What happened to them underscores the need to ensure the dignity of all British Columbians, he told reporters shortly after the news broke.
“Good riddance.”
Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, who was one of several Lower Mainland mayors to sign a letter calling for Pickton to not be allowed day parole, said “Today, my thoughts are with one group and one group only: the victims and all their families.”
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said the province will continue to do everything it can to support the families of the victims in finding answers and justice.
“While we have seen the end of a heinous life, we know that for the families of Pickton’s victims, this news has reopened old wounds and brought back painful feelings and memories,” he said.
“That pain is still being felt today for the families of the victims, and our entire community.
Black Press Media has reached out to
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim.
